[PYTHON-CRYPTO] Current state of the art?

Michael Ströder michael at STROEDER.COM
Thu Feb 8 18:02:23 CET 2001


Andrew Kuchling wrote:
>
> On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 11:53:26PM +0800, Ng Pheng Siong wrote:
> >M2Crypto, a Python binding for OpenSSL, has:
>
> Which reminds me... the socketmodule in Python 2.0 has some very
> simple support for SSL.

...but a different API than M2Crypto...

> However, I've been looking at the code recently and am not too
> favorably impressed with it; I'll argue for dropping it from 2.1.  SSL
> is a big API and the code in socketmodule.c only provides very basic
> things.

We're definitely getting closer to it... :-)

Ciao, Michael.





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